QIAN Yibing

Dr. QIAN Yibing serves as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Chinese History at the Department of Chinese Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Tübingen, supported by the Teach@Tübingen Fellowship for the 2024-2025 academic year. She teaches the lecture "European Natural History Explorations in China from the 15th to the Mid-20th Century: Global Exchange" during Summer Semester 2024.

Her academic qualifications include:

• Ph.D. in Chinese History, Fudan University (2023)
• M.A. in Chinese History, Fudan University, Shanghai (2018)
• B.A. in History, Henan University, Kaifeng (2015)
• Visiting student in History of Science, York University, Toronto (2020)

Dr. QIAN specializes in Sino-Western cultural exchanges, focusing on the transmission of Chinese material culture to the West and Western natural history to East Asia during the 19th-20th centuries. Her research integrates global history frameworks with analyses of scientific imperialism, nationalism's impact on education, and cross-cultural knowledge transfer. She examines how botanical exchanges, medical commodification, and educational reforms shaped modern scientific identities in China.

Her publication timeline reveals consistent thematic evolution from early work on medical biographies (2017) toward structural analyses of scientific institutions and global trade networks. Recent scholarship demonstrates deepening engagement with scientific imperialism frameworks and the political economy of knowledge transfer, particularly regarding natural history education reforms under nationalist movements.

Scientific recognition:

• Teach@Tübingen Fellowship (2024-2025)

Her research is currently funded through the Teach@Tübingen Fellowship, enabling her postdoctoral work at Tübingen. While no additional grants are specified, her publications indicate sustained engagement with major Chinese academic journals and media outlets. She maintains active scholarly output through both peer-reviewed venues and public-facing platforms like China Science Daily.

No laboratory or team affiliations are documented in the available materials.